Pheef, it’s 5:30am and I can’t sleep. I’m really tired, I’ve been really tired all day. But I just couldn’t sleep… Been in the bed since midnight. Saw a movie too… Apocalypse Now. Masterpiece really.

I tried figuring out some more topics I would like to write here about. So on the way back from Polus City Centre (a mall), I started looking around the place for things that might remind me about some topics I want to tell about. I came up with plenty of stuff so to get things started, here’s a couple of them for starters…

Cheese. Yes, you got it right. It says cheese. I don’t know the nationality for the cheese, but… First I thought it was the fridge in our flat that was smelling horrible when I first smelled it. But then I noticed the same smell in Tesco’s cheese department. It’s like a rottening smell that makes you want to puke. Now, apparently it can be just me since a lot of people are buying that stuff plus cheese is really popular here with food. But I can’t stand the smell it has. I don’t know the brand of that cheese either and I normally like cheese, but this smell is just awful

TIP: No tip really. Smell it yourself and be the judge.

Weather. Despite the variety of different weathers you have over here and the possibility of the weather changing drastically every day, I like it a lot. It’s warm and since I came here, I haven’t seen snow for more than maybe 3 minutes. It has been snowing, I think 3 times and twice of them before I woke up. Those two times, the snow melted away pretty fast. And the third time was when there was a slight, like a 5 minute “storm” when it snowed. But it went by quite fast too.

But what I love over here the most are the sunny days. They’re just pure awesomeness. Coming here in February was a good idea in a way because in February there’s like +10 degrees every day and the temperature doesn’t go much below 0 even during the nights. And now in May, sunny days have like close to 30 degrees. But what I hate about the sunny days is that there’s a lot of pollen in the air. But surprisingly enough, it hasn’t really affected me with my allergy for pollen.

TIP: Depending on where you’re from, the weather is pretty good (considering that I’m Finnish). Not much snow really and the temperature is good. So basically my thick jacket was really useless as were the long underwear. But then again, if my knee was ok, I might have gone skiing to Tatra’s when the jacket and underwear would have been good. So consider the weather when you pack your stuff.

Okay, I will bring up a third topic as well. Lets see… I mentioned Polus earlier so lets talk about malls. Bratislava has two main malls: Aupark and Polus City Centre. Aupark is the bigger one in case you wondered
I personally like them both. Aupark is really huge and it’s a shoppers paradise really. Polus on the other hand is a bit smaller, but quite big as well. I like Polus’ food restaurants actually as they have a nice variety of different food types in one part of the whole mall. McDonalds, Slovak food, Thai food, Asian restaurant, pizza and my personal favourite - Santa Fe. They make this wicked burrito with chicken, salad and so on. Really good and with a medium sized drink, it costs 109 SKK which is about 3,5 euros. Also I have to recommend the pizzeria over there called Pizza Pazza. The pizzas are just delicious and the service is really professional. Extra plus for the English menus which are surprisingly rare here in Ba. Tomato, cheese, ham, egg and salami on a pizza = awesome!

Aupark’s food selection is ok too, but I really don’t like what they have over there. Well ok, a couple of weeks ago we wandered to this Asian restaurant (called Sunshine) over there and they had this rice-egg-chicken stuff which I just love so points for that

Apart from the eating, both malls of course have tons of shops from baby clothes to jewelry and African souvenirs to a shop called Pink. Yea, you can guess what Pink sells… it’s all with the color pink
Now the closest thing to a mall I’ve seen in Finland is probably Sampokeskus in Rovaniemi. But its size compared to these two over here is just…small. So if you ever happen to be in Bratislava. Go to Aupark or Polus!

TIP: Guys! Never ever go to a mall with a girl! You should know this, but just to make sure. Sure it depends on what kind of a girl we’re talking about, but still… Unless you want to wind up bored and exhausted (the next 2 to infinite hours), avoid going to a mall with a girl after a “lets go to a mall just for fun” suggestion

Okay, I think that’s it for now. It’s 6am… Am not really that tired now, but am really thirsty so might just go to the gas station to get something to drink
Or maybe sleep a bit and then go to Polus for a burrito! (checks for opening hours)